Hitchcock Presents Torn Curtain on CD
Excerpts of the original Torn Curtain coming to CD.
If you’ve been following this site’s message board for the last week you will know this already:
Hip-O Records, a division of MCA/Universal, will release the CD Alfred Hitchcock Presents… Signatures in Suspense in July this year. Among the 18 tracks, most of which have been released before, you will find, for the first time, excerpts from the original 1966 recordings of Herrmann’s rejected score for Torn Curtain. From the 9 cues (and 17 takes) recorded before Hitchcock notoriously broke off the session Hip-O has selected 3 cues for the CD; Prelude/Torn Curtain, The Ship and Radiogram.
Tracks:
1. Theme from Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Funeral March of a Marionette)
2. Theme from I Confess (Tiomkin)
3. Theme from Dial M for Murder (Tiomkin)
4. Juke Box #6 from Rear Window* (Waxman)
5. Scene d’Amour from Vertigo (Herrmann)
6. The Wild Ride from North by Northwest (Herrmann)
7. Psycho – A Narrative for Orchestra (Herrmann, 1968 re-recording)
8. Prelude* from Marnie (Herrmann)
9. Marnie* (Herrmann)
10. Main Title from Torn Curtain (Addison)
11. Prelude* from Torn Curtain (Herrmann)
12. The Ship* from Torn Curtain (Herrmann)
13. The Radiogram* from Torn Curtain (Herrmann)
14. March from Topaz (Jarre, re-recording by Bateman)
15. The London Theme from Frenzy (Goodwin, re-recording by Bateman)
16. A Portrait of Hitch from The Trouble with Harry (Herrmann, 1968 re-recording)
17. Prelude from The Wrong Man (Herrmann, re-recording by Bernstein)
18. End Credits & End Titles from Family Plot* (Williams)
Original recordings unless otherwise noted
* previously unavailable